Asier Mendizabal

Asier Mendizabal Lingua corrente (seguida 1), 2024
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Installation view: Linguagem / corrente, Sismógrafo, Porto, 2024
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Asier Mendizabal Lingua corrente (#1), 2024
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Installation view: Sinfines, ProjecteSD, 2021
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Diagramas de dispersión # 2 (Scatterplot # 2), 2021
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Impresión digital sobre papel y cristal / Digital print on cotton paper and glass
ca. 100 x 55 x 2 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Diagramas de dispersión # 1 (Scatterplot # 1), 2021
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Impresión digital sobre papel y cristal / Digital print on cotton paper and glass
ca. 100 x 55 x 2 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Diagramas de dispersión # 4 (Scatterplot # 4), 2021
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Impresión digital sobre papel y cristal / Digital print on cotton paper and glass
ca. 100 x 55 x 2 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Condensar #1, 2021
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Cadena metálica y bridas blancas / Metal chain and white zip ties
ca. 17 x 20 x 20 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Condensar #3, 2021
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Cadena metálica y bridas blancas / Metal chain and white zip ties
ca. 17 x 20 x 20 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Parabel #01, 2021
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Collage fotográfico / Photographic collage
Enmarcado / Framed: 30,75 x 42,25 x 3,5 cm
Unique / Única
Asier Mendizabal Parabel #06, 2021
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Collage fotográfico / Photographic collage
Enmarcado / Framed: 30,75 x 42,25 x 3,5 cm
Unique / Única
Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
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Photo: Museo Oteiza
Asier Mendizabal Incurvar (Limbo) #6, 2019
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Goma PU y chapa perforada de acero / Rubber ad perforated steel plate
48 x 48 x 43 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Incurvar, 2018
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Two digital prints
Framed: 79 x 119 x 4 cm each. Ed. 1 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Mallarmé (Incurvar), 2016
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3 C-prints
c-u / each: 80 x 115 cm
Ed. 1 + 1 AP
Asier Mendizabal Untitled (Benta Handi), 2009
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Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
Photo: Museo Oteiza
Asier Mendizabal Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro Ivo
Asier Mendizabal Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro Ivo
Installation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Crania, 2018
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Tinta sobre papel / Ink on paper
46 x 35 cm. Enmarcado / Framed: 50 x 39 x 3 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
Framed: 92 x 74 x 3 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Geodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Installation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Asier Mendizabal Stilfragen (Glossopalatine), 2025
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Hormigón / Concrete
22 x 21 x18 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Sin título (cesta 3), 2015
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Concrete
46 x 21 x 21 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Sin título (cesta 2), 2015
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Concrete
15 x 33 x 33 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Problemas de estilo y vasijas de barro (Quito), 2018
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2 glass plates, 1 collage
195 x 150 x 1 cm
Unique
Installation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
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Photo: MAPCA
Installation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
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Photo: MAPCA
Installation view: A Singular Form, 2016. Secession, Vienna
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Photo: Oliver Ottenschlaeger
Asier Mendizabal Woodcut (Modest imperative), 2013
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Xilography on paper, three parts.
Overall dimension: 134 x 282 x 7 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Untitled (Forcola) #5 – Untitled (Forcola) #2 , 2013
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Digital prints on cotton paper
Framed: 106,5 x 79,5 x 5 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Installation view: Concavitat, ProjecteSD, 2017
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Asier Mendizabal Rotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Sin título (Trama#4), 2012
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Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Sin título (Trama#4), 2012
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Detail
Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Sin Título (Trama #9), 2019
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Recortes de serigrafía / Silkscreen cut-outs
Enmarcada / Framed: 76,5 x 55 x 3 cm
Única / Unique
Asier Mendizabal Illustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015
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Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Illustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015
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Detail
Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Asier Mendizabal Not All That Moves (Is Red), 2007
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Fabric, concrete and audio CD. Variable dimensions.
Unique
Exhibition view: Not All That Moves (Is Red), Artis den Bosch, The Netherlands, 2007

Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
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Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Asier Mendizabal Auñamendi, 2006
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36 C-prints.
Framed: 31,5 x 42 cm each.
Ed. 3 + 1 AP.
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. Leith
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín Cortés
Asier Mendizabal The Staff That Matters (Six Steps), 2009
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Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
Unique

Asier Mendizabal Figures and Prefigurations (Divers, B. Munari, 1935), 2010
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Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
Unique

Asier Mendizabal La Ruota Dentata, 2009
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Concrete and iron, 170 x 390 x 230 cm
Unique
Installation view: Koenraad Dedobbeleer/Asier Mendizabal, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2009

Asier Mendizabal No Time For Love, 2000
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Detail
16mm b&w film loop projection, 16 mm projector, iron framework and PCV sheeting
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro

Asier Mendizabal This Is The Way (Assemble), 2007
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Silkscreen. Framed, 70 x 50 cm each
Ed. 40 + 10 AP

Asier Mendizabal Cinema, 1999
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PVC sheeting, board on wooden trestles, bottles of mineral water and glasses. Dimension variable
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro
Biography
Ordizia, Guipúzcoa, 1973. Lives and works in Bilbao and Stockholm.
Asier Mendizabal’s work pays most attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology and has been said to be related to the constructivist sculpture with its roots in the abstract utopia of the first decades of the 20th century. The question of the sign and its materiality and identification as a social and political emblem also has a place among the artist’s interests. Through sculpture, photography, video, textual or graphic works, Mendizabal gives a view on ideology based on the mise en scène of the concepts or structures shaped by it. The works by Mendizabal cannot be interpreted at first sight as they accumulate layers of meaning and sometimes refer to multiple ideas which are not of common knowledge. Whereas in some works a direct connotation in the recent history and reality of the Basque country can be read, in others he chooses referents which belong to historic or ideological legacies.
Selected Texts
- 2015Asier MendizabalDe trama y urdimbre, figura y fondo y otras analogías estructurales
- 2014Asier MendizabalWarp and Weft as Structural Metaphor
- 2010Caoimhín Mac Giolla LéithAsier Mendizabal
Exhibitions
- 12 November 2021 — 05 February 2022
- 16 November 2012 — 11 January 2013
- 25 March — 17 May 2017
- 01—28 February 2023
- 04 July — 29 August 2018
News
- 6 February — 12 December 2021
GROUP SHOW: Julia Stoschek collection, Berlin
- 22 February — 26 May 2019
GROUP SHOW: CENTROCENTRO, MADRID
- 12 April — 11 November 2018
GROUP SHOW, CARRÉ D’ART-MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, NÎMES